Later, armor became elaborate & frivolous.
Ensembles become elaborate dance numbers.
Music also became elaborate, with antiphonal psalm chanting.
Arrangements for these speeches have become elaborate — almost regal, some would say.
By the nineteen-twenties, pools had become elaborate "public amusements," accommodating thousands.
But the best have become elaborate interventions, with landscaping, platforms, even mini-mini-golf.
Front steps become elaborate harvest scenes with enough haystacks and corn stalks for a Nashville hoedown.
Ceramics became elaborate in shape, often with composite or recurved outlines, hollow, bulbous feet, and flangelike protrusions encircling the vessel.
These scribal doodles eventually became elaborate design elements, leading the way to Irish masterpieces like the Book of Kells.
Masks used in these productions became elaborate headpieces made of leather or painted canvas and depicted an extensive variety of personalities, ages, ranks, and occupations.
In time, place settings became elaborate, and involved a whole complement of knives: blunt knives, fish knives, cheese knives, butter knives.
